Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-02

AA4gag1 VI Ahtnpttts
AT a meeting of the Montgomery
County Medical Association held In
GAINESVILLE on Monday, June 18th
1887 the following tribute was paid
to the memory OF DIR. James NJ.
Larkin:
When some dear one is taken from the
home circle we sorrowfully bow beneath the
smiling rod, and In silence nurse our grief.
But when our entire community Uncommon
with this society is stricken with the sense Of
agreat bereavement, IL becomes us TO give
utteiance TO the emotions excited by the
memory OF a life full of deeds which, though
they won not the applause Of the populace
nor gave a worldwide renown, yet life
which yielded itsgood fruits and It's tplendld
victories. Such life was ended by the
death Of
DIR. JAMES MUNRoE LARKIN
who was born June Goth, 1878 In Dickson
county, Tennessee. In 1913 he placed him
self under the direction OF DR.. Jennings In
Nash Vile, Tenn, as his preceplor with
whom he pursued the study Of medicine
He received the degree OF NJ. d., In Louisville,
KY, In 1916, and in 1857 the adendum Of
the University of Nashville. He actively
engaged In the practice OF medicine IN his
native county, until 1851 when he was COM
mlssioned by the Governor as a surgeon In
the provisional army of Tennessee. shortly
after that army was transferred TO the Con-
federate States, domestic aftlictlon required
his return to his family, with whom he re-
manned about one year-then resuming his
place in the Confederate States army he
continued as surgeon, and with marked dis
tinction until the close Of the war. After
the restoration of place he removed to
GAINESVILLE and devoted the remainder OF
his life to professional work. In common
with the people of the South he was tinanci-
ally ruined by the inevitable calamities Of
war, but he proudly rose above Lis misfor.
tune, and few indeed knew with what stern
self-denial and resolute purpose he put to
the severest test of endurance the energy Of
q stalwart selt-reience. If not 10 be soured
by the charges of adversely, nor narrowed
by his one pursuit be considered proof 8
great mind, then surely he possessed one.
For more than twenty years he was oul
friend and associate, in which relation We
fully realized that we were in contact with Q
man whose character was solely his own-it
was absolutely unique, for he initiated none
and the most impartial analysis will moi
fail to show that his virtues largely predom
mated over his faults. His talents were of Q
high order, were cultivated and trained by
careful and laborious study, and united to Q
richand vigorous Imagination gave TO his con
versation and action the blended influence
of reason and feeling. No matter how higf
the authority with whom he reasoned anC
differed he acted upon his own conviction
which was the supreme law Of his life.
A real lover OF nature he dispised affecta
ton and prstense. Always loyal TO hi
chosen profession, the more he learned o
the science and art Of medicine, the NOR
heartily he detested the empyric and char q
tan together with their "tricks in trade" ant
: tricks for trade. His department wa
marked by the gracss OF knightly courtesy
; and woman's gentleness, but wher
occasion avoked 1t he exhibited thu
courage OF a true and sturdy manhood
; Scrupulous and exacting to himself he wa
| charitable and helpful to others-to the you'll
especially was he forgiying and fatherly con
corning their errors, whilst he sought by ex
ample and persuasion to clarm them int
the better way. His love for his kind fowe
in perennial stream, and With him the tea
NJ repentance reasoned the stain Of guilt, fo
h himself had climbed up heights to tn
fonntaia OF human nature and learned II
frailties. The woes OF this changeful Iii
which have so often crushed the weak, an
n stapefied the strong, and made the prou
more vindictive and cruel, actually opene
u his heart to a gushing tide ofsympathy whic
expanded more and more with pure bene'
: olence, and encouraging with brighten hops
the suffering ended In universal CHART,
: Always and implicitly true to himself an
G false to no man, he could reverently walk
Y the garden at all hours of the day with new
a thought of hiding.
y insufficient as we know this imperfect est
8 mate of the worth OF our departed friend
v be, we inscribs it as token of our reveren
n for hispurity and his personal and profe
sional honor.
J G. W.BEAUMoST,
r. T. H. MARABLE.